7:05 PM,
Feb. 18, 2014

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Brandon Coleman didn't see any other way to play it. Or rather to not play it.

Yes, he still felt the effects of the offseason right knee surgery that kept him out of Rutgers football spring practice and most of training camp. But as a team captain and one of the biggest wide receiver names in the sport, should he really risk sitting out over an injury he could gut his way through?

"It wasn't frustrating. It was just a new experience for me that I hadn't been through before and I had to adjust to it," Coleman said in between preparations for the NFL Draft. "I think I did a good job handling the situation ...